According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) report, usage of big data is growing faster in healthcare. As global connectivity increases and technology flourishes, healthcare has undergone a wave of digitisation leaving researchers hopeful in translating clinical knowledge to find cures, improve patients’ quality of life, preventative measures and increase preventable care. Big data has been described as volume, velocity, and variety, and with new massive sources of information, such as genomic identity and global patient environment, provides an opportunity for unconventional ways of understanding complex diseases.

But how feasible are these open and data-driven approaches in the health tech space? Is health research ready to be tackled with inclusive open data settings?

The first Global Business Innovation Conversation for 2019 will explore digital health and bring together experts to discuss:

What is the value of open data to tackle challenges in health?

How can we ethically handle patient and health data?

How can we put in place inclusive data initiatives for tackling challenges in health tech?

How should the Australian health space tackle these challenges?

How can we build viable health tech start-ups in Australia?

Don't miss the opportunity to connect with academics, researchers and industry specialists.

How will Fintech disruptors shape the financial services ecosystem by 2030?Hosted in partnership with KPMG, the final installment of the RMIT Global Business Innovation Conversations will explore changes and uncertainty in an increasingly disruptive digital system.How can we create an ecosystem in Australia that places Fintech start-ups in a position to flourish and succeed?

How will Fintech disruptors shape the financial services ecosystem by 2030?

Hosted in partnership with KPMG, the final installment of the RMIT Global Business Innovation Conversations for 2018 will explore changes and uncertainty in an increasingly disruptive digital system.

Dr. Jörn Bühringfrom the Polytechnic University, Hong Kong will discuss the integration of Foresight and Design processes to deliver significant opportunities and improve the performance of business models by 2030.

Following the keynote, a panel of experts will discuss how we can create an ecosystem in Australia that places Fintech start-ups in a position to flourish and succeed.

Ashley McAuliffe - Moderator

Industry Fellow for Wealth ManagementCollege of Business, RMIT University

How will your organisation thrive with new innovations and technology?Major trends, such additive manufacturing, IoT, nanotechnology and augmented and virtual reality have not just driven innovation in product development but is disrupting leaders to revisit business models.

How can manufacturers leverage innovative technologies in the business model context?

The development of new technologies is disrupting the traditional business models of manufacturing, opening opportunities to pursue untapped markets, and driving innovation in the area of product development.

Disruption opens the playing field for start-ups and SME’s, with leading manufacturers equally focused on leveraging technology and business model innovation. The impact of major trends such as additive manufacturing, nanotechnology and the Internet of Things have forced leaders to rethink innovation in manufacturing, redefine functions of their business and revisit business models.

The conversation will explore co-creative opportunities and ask the question - is collaboration enough?

If you’re in the business of manufacturing or operate within the manufacturing environment, join the conversation and collaborate with innovators, designers, technologists, academics and business experts. Adapt and plan for innovation to thrive in the fourth industrial revolution.

Ground-breaking innovation has transformed the health sector - but at what risk?Join global executives, clinicians, medical researchers and data experts in conversations exploring the opportunities and risks for providers.

Across Australia and around the world, innovators of all sizes - start-ups, SME's to health-tech powerhouses, are working together using technology, medicine and data, to improve clinical outcomes and human experience.

Some of the latest trends we have seen enter the health sector - operating and nano robots, remote health management, vision for the blind and exoskeletons, have developed through the reinterpretation and translation of data into artificial intelligence (AI) for an enhanced user experience (UX).

But with every technological development, invites the risk of personal data and information to fall into the wrong hands. Your data (MyData), suddenly becomes the world's data (OurData).

Guest speaker Professor Minna Pikkarainen of Connected Health, University of Oulu has worked on ‘connected health’ projects in Finland integrating data at many different levels. Recognised as one of the leading countries pioneering innovation, Professor Minna Pikkarainen will share the latest findings express from Finland, and provide concrete examples of the data usage in various cases in preventive and more acute care contexts.

These include 'Mydata’ with the individual consent in preventive healthcare field, using personal 'me data' collected by individuals e.g. in home and emergency care field, as well as using organizational data collected e.g. from hospitals and companies.

How can we combine the industry's need for data with digital human rights?

Experts and executives from relevant health and tech organisations will present alongside Professor Minna Pikkarainen, and participate in a panel discussion on the discovery and research of innovation and technology gaining ground in the health sector.

Professor Minna Pikkarainen

CONNECTED HEALTH, UNIVERSITY OF OALU

Mr Neville Board

RN, BA, MPH, FACHICHIEF DIGITAL HEALTH OFFICE, DHHS VICTORIA

Stephen Rennick

HEAD OF CYBER-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, FERRIER HODGSON

Associate Professor Lijing Wang

RMIT University

GUEST SPEAKERMinna Pikkarainen works on multidisciplinary research in innovation management, service networks and business models in the context of connected health service co-creation. Her target is to create several industry-driven research projects and project preparations and collaborating closely with software companies across Europe, US, Australia and Singapore.

GUEST SPEAKERMr Board headed the eHealth and Medication Safety program at the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, where his team conducted clinical incident management framework for clinical information systems, national guidelines for on-screen presentation of medicines information and discharge summaries, the guide to safe implementation of EMM in hospitals, and a cumulative antibiogram standard to support the national approach of antimicrobial stewardship.

GUEST SPEAKERStephen Rennick is an executive leader with over 25 years’ experience in Cyber Security roles within large consultancies (EY, Verizon Business, PwC and KPMG), owner of IT Security consultancies, and advisor to global organisations and the international standards community.

EXPERT PANELLISTLijing Wang is the Research Lead on RMIT's Smart Textiles (Sensors and Wearable Technologies) Cluster, the Centre for Materials Innovation and Future Fashion (CMIFF). He has been a CI for 8 ARC grants, and 20 more other funded research projects. His current key research areas are protective garments, clothing comfort, and fibre materials.